Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
I sure hope that the CPS grad hires come from the very low percentage of CPS educated students who can actually read at grade level.
The irony, of course, is that many of these children live in self-segregated neighborhoods that are so isolated from greater society, that their school teacher may be the only white person they have any interaction with on any regular basis. Few outsiders travel or live within these neighborhoods, and unless they have a white family member, they may go weeks at a time in their neighborhood without actually interacting with anyone not of their own race. But CPS doesn’t care about that, they only want teachers for students that ‘look like them’. Which is really a racist dog whistle for… Read more »